GREEK GENOCIDE BY THE OTTOMAN TURKS

 Today is the anniversary of the brutal Greek Genocide in 1918.

                      

Greek organizations and Greek Americans join in a demonstration organized by the US Armenian Council for Human Rights to commemorate the Greek genocide, on Wednesday, the 19^th May 2021, in Los Angeles.

 

The event will take place outside the Turkish consulate in Beverly Hills, from 11.00 am o 1.00 pm.

 

Following President Biden’s historical recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Greeks believe that the time is ripe for the recognition of the Greek Genocide by the Ottoman Turks in the early part of the 20^th century.

 

According to the above book and many other sources, the Greek Genocide was the systematic killing of the Christian Greek population in Anatolia, Turkey, by the barbarous Ottoman Turks, during World War I and its aftermath (1914-1922) on the basis of their religion and ethnicity.  

 

The Greek genocide was instigated by the government of Turkey and the Turkish National Movement against the indigenous Greek population of Turkey, which included massacres, death marches, expulsions, and the destruction of Greek Orthodox cultural, historical, and religious sites. Several hundreds of thousands of Greeks were massacred during this period. Most of the survivors fled to Greece adding more than a quarter of the prior population of Greece.  Some took refuge in the neighboring Russian Empire.

 

By late 1922, most of the Greeks of Asia Minor had either fled or had been killed. Those remaining were transferred to Greece under the terms of the later 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey, which formalized the exodus and banned the return of the refugees.   

 An image of the Greeks fleeing from  Smyrna and escaping from the terror of the barbarian Ottoman Turks in 1922.